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by robjan 6y ago
One of the features of the Signal protocol is that each message is signed with a different key so that if one message is somehow compromised it's still impossible to retrieve the others. I think this would break with P2P sync.
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by robjan 6y ago
The details are all available in the whitepaper here (pdf): https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qmbeiekum8XBeLrVBioKo8gqC1T...
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by robjan 6y ago
That's the same with any stock, currency or crypto though. If you want to sell the whole market cap then it's worthless.
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by robjan 6y ago
This reminds me of when Keybase integrated Stellar Lumens. It was never the same again. If they really must integrate crypto with the main app I'd rather they used a stablecoin since a highly volatile cryptoasset isn't very useful
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by robjan 6y ago
We bought our whole team Plantronics Voyager Focus UC headsets. They cost around $250 each but are well worth the background noise cancellation and have excellent sound quality.
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by robjan 6y ago
There's another dimension which is "scope" and is also often negotiable.
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by robjan 6y ago
You can easily find it on various Telegram groups and the Bittorrent DHT.
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by robjan 6y ago
Senior developers learn that everything is negotiable
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by robjan 6y ago
Best way is to not get involved. I don't mean don't get involved in startups but just don't follow so-called thought leaders and focus on yourself. These posts are primarily to create engagement and promote themselves /
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by robjan 6y ago
The idea of latitude and longitude was invented in Greece couple of millennia ago and the first accurate instrument to measure them was invented by the John Harrison, a Brit, before the USA was founded.
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by robjan 6y ago
Because there are no flights for airmail to travel on. We have the same problem in HK since the border is almost completely closed. We can only send mail by ship to most destinations unless it's couriered.
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by robjan 6y ago
The reason these changes happened today was that there was a very real chance that pro-democracy figures would win the election in a system which was rigged against them. This is also why essentially all of the pro-democracy candidates were
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by robjan 6y ago
The NFT representing Jack's tweet is a pointer to the tweet. It's possible to create an unlimited number of pointers to the same thing.
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by robjan 6y ago
The 50k limit is easy to circumvent. Anyone who's anyone in China has a Hong Kong bank account. They then hire a tour bus and a bunch of poor elderly people and each takes 50k across the border and deposits it into the HK account. This
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by robjan 6y ago
Doesn't that mean that in the future Jack can just mint a new NFT and say that the new one is in fact the canonical NFT for his first tweet? The only way to do it would be for NFTs to support non-repudation, but they don't. The tr
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by robjan 6y ago
This is full of bias and the bias is the experience and personal opinions of the person who created the matrix.
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by robjan 6y ago
Most of the "Programming" section is just personal opinion or a house style guide, especially at the more senior levels.
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by robjan 6y ago
Where is the other side, i.e how are people with hard drives recruited? It didn't seem to be on this site but it's important to know otherwise how do we know it's not, for instance, a botnet?
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by robjan 6y ago
I am not 100% familiar with US regulations but I imagine there will be some KYC process before buying the Tesla in Bitcoins.
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by robjan 6y ago
If you need a car, you need a car. I don't think anyone sees them as an investment other than "an investment in being able to get from A to B on one's own terms"
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by robjan 6y ago
The existence of a secondary market with lots of liquidity gives people the confidence to invest in IPOs. There would be a lot fewer participants if there was no secondary market.
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by robjan 6y ago
The market corrected around Q1/Q2 last year and this is one of the events which causes hedgies profits to soar.
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by robjan 6y ago
These companies can't live off VC cash forever. Getting acquired by Google / Microsoft is usually part of the business plan.
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by robjan 6y ago
Engineers who do things without other people knowing about it are a liability, not an asset. It results in a bus factor of 1. There is a big difference from asking for forgiveness, which is often required to get things moving, vs. working i
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by robjan 6y ago
I am very aware of the situation, being a resident of Hong Kong, and it's completely different. Hong Kong is indisputably a part of the People's Republic of China, and the Basic Law (our Constitution) is part of the constitution o
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by robjan 6y ago
They should hide all metrics. Remove follower count, retweet count, like count. Without metrics there is less incentive to game the system and less feedback when attempting to game it.
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by robjan 6y ago
If you have to pay 80% of the local wages it's not worth outsourcing and the Philippine economy loses out. Additionally it would completely mess up the Philippine economy. Suddenly people would rather work in a call centre than, for ex
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by robjan 6y ago
TSMC is based in on the soil of one of America's allies.
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by robjan 6y ago
Labour isn't particularly cheap in Taiwan
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by robjan 6y ago
If Wikipedia starts to receive commission for selling books the incentive changes from recommending the best book to the one who pays then the most

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